Creasing-iron.



H. W. POGUE.

CREASING IRON.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.

Patented May 5, 1914 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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GREASING IRON,

APPLICATION FILED 1-IAR.20. 1913 Patented May 5, 1914 I WITNESSES 35INVENTOI? ATTORNEYS till HENRY W. FOG-UTE, OE DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1914.

Application filed March 20, 1913. Serial No. 755,657.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. PocUE, a citizen of the United States,and'a resident of Decatur, in the county of Macon and portion of thegarment to be creased is received, the members being provided withguiding runners to assist the user in guiding the iron.'

lhe invention also has for its design to provide, in connection withelectric heating elements, a'novel arrangement of contact spring for theclosing and opening of the circuit, and a novel arrangement of pushbutton controlling the spring.

It is a further design of my invention to improve in various particularsdevices of the generel character indicated, to the end that eiticiencyinoperation may be promoted, as well as economy ofmanufacture andsimplicity of adjustment and control;

The improved iron will be morerparticularly. explained in the specificdescription following.

Reference is to be had to the accompany ing drawingsforming apartof-this specification, in which similar characters of-ref-' erenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the-creasing iron embodying myinvention; Fig. 2- is a front end view thereof; Fig. 3 is across sectionin a plane taken mainly on: the line 3-3 of Fig. 4; Fig. 4 is alongitudinal vertical section; Fig.- 5 is a planfview lti with thehandle and cover removed; Fig. 6 is an inverted plan view; and Fig. 7 isa detail perspective view of the heating element. I

In forming a creasing iron. inaccordance with thepresentinvention, ahollow'body 10 is adapted to receive electrical heatingmeans, ashereinafter explained,- and at one side of said body is disposed a shoe1L To yieldingly mountthe shoe to exert a yield-.

ing pressure on agarment, the ShOGJiS pivotally hung at its upper end bymeans of ears 12 thereon, and pins 13 which pass through said ears andthrough similar ears or lugs 14, (Fig. 3) formed on the body 10.lnverted U-shaped springs 15 press yieldingly by their outer armsagainst the outer face of the shoe 11, the inner arms being receivedwithin the adjacent side of the body 10, the arrangement being such thatthe creased portion of the garment may be entered between the body andthe shoe.

It is to be noted that at the lower end of.

the body 10 a runner 16 is formed, ranging longitudinally along thelower edge of' said body, at the side adjacent to the shoe, and that asimilar runner 17 is formed on the shoe, said runners ranging lengthwiseof the iron. Preferably these runners are in the form of outwardly andoppositely projecting flanges, and slots 18, l9,-are produced in thebody and shoe between the runners, so that the latter are joined to the.body and shoe respectively, at the ends only, as at 20, 21.

Both the body and the shoe are rounded outwardly at each end,providing-'2; flaring entrance leading'to'the opposed smoothingsurfaces, so that the garment may be readily and conveniently guidedinto place,. the flaring entrances being best shown in Figs. 5 and6,-.as indicated by'the numerals 22', 23. Similarly the'body and shoeflare" vertically atthe bottom, theopposed'surfaces' present ingdownward and'outwardcurves 24, 25, (Figs. 2and=3').

With the described construction, when the iron' :is to be employed forcreasing a garment, the garment'is entered between the shoe and thebody; the springs servln'gto exert the desired pressure. The runners16', 17, assist-theuser in guiding the iron in a straight-line and theslot format-ion indicated at '18, 19, prevents the high heating 'of therunners-so that the ends of the runners with: which a hand of the userislikely to contact, will not be heated to a degree to burn theIuser: I

The hollow body 10 is provided with a removable cover 26', which may besecured'by screws 27, 28,or any equivalent means, and

proper,'30.

- The heating elementmay consist of a plate 31-,= afiording the properresistance for the purpose, said elementbeing "disposed in practice,close-to theside 10 adjacent to the-shoe-ll; as indicatedin Fig". 5,-mica sheets32 or other insulating medium may be employed,-saidsheetsbeing in the illustrated iio example clamped by a clamp bolt 32held against the said sheets by screws 34. In the illustrated form theheating element 31 has terminal arms 35, 36, with which the ends of aconductor wire 37 are suitably connected, there being illustratedbinding-posts 38, 39, for the purpose. ,One terminal arm is clamped atits outer end by a clamp bolt 40 and its nut 40*, which also'clamp thelower end. of a vertical conductor strip 41, the upper end of which isclamped by the inner end of the binding post 38 and its nut 38*, so thatthe current may pass from said binding post 38 through the strip 41, tothe terminal arm 35, to the heating element 31, which latter is slittedlongitudinally, as at 31 the current returning through the terminal arm36, which is clamped by a clamp bolt 42 and nut 42 to the lower end of aspring 43, constituting a switch to close and open the circuit. The bolt42 is below and spaced from the binding post 39, and the tension of thespring 43 is such as to maintain the said spring normally out of contactwith the inner end 39 of said binding post.

A, push button is provided to press the switch-spring 43 against the end39 of the binding post 39, so that the circuit will be completed fromsaid binding post through the spring, thence to the arm 36 of theheating element, through said element to the arm 35, and thence to thebinding post 38, as previously described.

' The binding posts and .clamp bolts referred to'are all carried by aninsulatin blockor plug 44 removably fitted in the body 10. As seen-inFig. 5, the. insulating block 44 is grooved as at 44 at one side, toreceive a vertical rib 10 on the side of the body, and the opposite endof the block is rabbeted, as at 44 to receive the adjacent spring 15,thereby producing a vertical rib 44 that has sliding contact with theinner surface of the side 10 of the body.

The upper end of the switch spring 43 is in the form of a downwardlycurved hook 43 which hooks over a small spool 45 mounted on a pin 46which passes through the said spool and through the sides of a slidinghousing 47 which is mounted on the elevated ortion 26 of the cover 26.The sliding o' the housing 47 in a direction toward the binding post 39will carry the spring 43 into contact with said binding post to closethe circuit, and the slidin of the housing in the opposite directionw1ll break the circuitby withdrawing the spring from contact with thesaid bindlng post, since the connection of the housing and spool throughthe medium of the pin 46 carries with it the said spool and the hookedupper end of the spring. It is to be particularly noted (see Fig. 4)that there is formed in the switch spring 43 an open loop 43, wherebythe roeaeaa hooked upper end 43 will exert a downward pressure on thespool 45, and therefore press the housing 47 which is flanged at itsbase as at 47*, against the elevated portion 26 of the cover. To retainthe housing 47 in the one position for closing the circuit, or in theother position for maintaining the circuit open, said housing has lugs47 at the lower edges of its sides,the lugs form-- ing catches adaptedto engage corresponding recesses 26 in the elevated port-ion 26 of thecover.

It will be obvious from the foregoing that the push button can beconveniently manipulated to open and close the circuit, and that theswitch spring is utilized to retain the push button in the adjustedpositions so that, coupled with the provision of the'runners on the bodyand shoe as described, a very eflicient and convenient creasing ironresults.

The described construct-ion afi'ords a practical means for carrying myinvention into effect, and I would state in conclusion that I do notlimit myself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated,since manifestly the same may be considerably varied without departingfrom the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire tosecureby Letters Patent: 7

1. A creasing iron, comprising a body provided with a handle and havingmeans for heating the same, and a shoe movably mounted on the body atone side thereof for movement relatively to the body, the opposedsurfaces of the body and shoe presenting ironing surfaces, and the lowerportions of the body and shoe having longitudinally extending guidingrunners below said surfac s.

2. A creasing iron comprising a hollow body provided with a handle and alongitudinally extending runner projecting from its bottom at the inneredge thereof, means for heating the body, and a pivoted and springpressed shoe carried by the body, said shoe extending below the bottomof the body and terminating in an outwardly extending flange forming arunner, the runners of the body and shoe being longitudinally slotted.

3. An iron having an electrical heating element, members to connect aconductor wire with said element, a switch spring adapted to connectmembers to brin the heating element into the circuit, or to break thecircuit, said spring having a loop, and a push. button engaged by saidspring and in sliding engagement with the surface of the iron, the loopserving to cause the spring to press the push button into engagementwiththe iron.

4. An iron, comprising ahollow body having an electrical heatingelement, members for connecting conductor wires with said element, aswitch in the form of a vspring having one end fixed and provided with aloop, said spring" being adapted to connect the members to brin theheating element into the circuit or to reak the circuit, ahousing'mounted to slide on the body, meansfor connecting'one end of thespring switch with said housing, and means for holding the housing inposition.

5. In an iron, a hollow 'body having an electrical heating element,means for connecting conductor Wires with the said ele' ment, a switchin the form of a spring having one end fixed and provided with a hook atits other end and intermediate of its ends with a loop, a housingmounted to slide on the body, a spool mounted int-he housing and withwhich the hook of the spring switch enga es, and interengaging means onthe housing and body for holding the housing in position.

6. In an iron, a hollow body, an-insula-ting block inthe body, bindingposts'in the block one above the other, a conductor strip secured to onebinding post, an electric heating element having arms; one of the saidarms b'eingsecured to the conductor strip and the other to the otherbindin post, a push button mounted to slide on t e upper face of thebody, and a switch'in the form of a spring having one end secured to onebinding post and its other end to the push button, the spring having aloop intermediate of its ends and adapted to engage the other bindingpost.

.In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY W. POGUE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS C. BUXTON, SAMUEL W. GILBERT.

